Hillary delivered. The phony drama MUST stop now.
Ladies and gentlemen, I was among the many of us who criticized Hillary during the primaries. (FYI, I also criticized Obama, Edwards, and just about everyone else....)And the traditional media has...
View ArticleMittens Romney and Tim Pawlenty ENRAGED by McCain's VP pick.
Dear ladies and gentlemen of the traditional media:I now expect you -- no, REQUIRE you -- to run 24/7 stories about Republicans being in severe, angry disarray going into their convention next week....
View ArticleSarah Palin is LYING about the Bridge to Nowhere.
(I have seen this mentioned elsewhere, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the front page or the Rec list.)One of the big Republican talking points we keep hearing about John McCain's VP pick is...
View ArticleKids were never "off-limits" for McCain before.
Ladies and gentlemen,We've now been told by all respectable parties that kids are "off-limits" in political discussion. I agree with this, for the most part. And I want to honor what Barack Obama...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman vs. Joe Lieberman.
Well, Holy Joe couldn't resist getting up there and shilling for John McCain last night. He praised his hero McCain, and kissed up to the entire Republican party -- which has been his schtick for a...
View ArticleThe Republican party destroyed its chances tonight.
They will lose. I guarantee it.These craven idiots really think that America wants another four-eight years of the guy whose approval rating has been stuck below 30% FOREVER.Rudy Giuliani came off as...
View ArticleSarah Palin, the Welfare Queen Governor.
Republicans like John McCain and Sarah Palin love to rail against taxes and government spending. It's the standard Republican script, and we saw from Palin's heroes, big spenders George W. Bush and...
View ArticlePalin: "plane on eBay" not even her idea!
One by the one the pillars are falling. Sarah Palin's stories are being proven b.s., over and over. At some point we have to wonder: do ANY of them hold up to the slightest scrutiny?Short answer:...
View Article"Inventing the Internet": John McCain vs. Al Gore
(This diary is expanded from a comment I made in Devilstower's front page diary today.)So. It was John McCain who invented the Internet, after all.At least that's what John McCain is claiming.At least...
View ArticleBush runs the Iraq play again. Will Congress fall for it?
Will Congress fall for it AGAIN?****The trillion-plus bailout demanded by George W. Bush and his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, has a very familiar ring to it.In a word: Iraq.Once again...
View ArticleDear Republicans: George W. Bush is all YOURS.
(expanded from a comment in Meteor Blades' diary...)So. George W. Bush will address the nation tonight. He'll come out of hiding in the White House. He'll take a quick break from doing (ssshhhh!)...
View ArticleMcCain and Palin babble and whine - together! [VIDEO]
So John McCain is trying to pretend that Barack Obama has actually given up tactical information to the terrorists by Obama's general statement that if there was reliable intelligence about high-value...
View ArticleBarack Obama: first-rate intellect AND first-rate temperament.
Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said of FDR that he possessed "a second-rate intellect, but a first-rate temperament."Whatever you think of that assessment, and the slightly arcane...
View ArticleMcCain going negative? Let's have Keating Five scandal 24/7.
The flop sweat has been showing for some time, but lately it's been ankle-deep. John McCain is losing, and losing big. We know it, he knows it, everyone knows it. By every quantifiable measure,...
View ArticleSean Hannity's pal: "Exterminate Jew Power."
Sean Hannity is a Fox News star.Fox News is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. No serious, sane person believes otherwise.Sean Hannity is an anti-Semite who loves to spotlight his fellow...
View ArticleJohn Cleese of Monty Python laughs at Sarah Palin
I'm a great fan of John Cleese of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers. He and his cohorts have produced some of the funniest stuff ever for TV and movies, and they're as smart as anyone...
View ArticleRepublican talk host Michael Smerconish endorses Obama
Philadelphia-based Republican talk show host Michael Smerconish has now endorsed Barack Obama. He will have an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer to that effect soon, and he read excerpts of it on...
View ArticleDear GOP: sure, we'll take those voters off your hands.
Dear Republican Party,Many of you are very busy these days explaining to the American people just which of them get to be called "real Americans." And who doesn't.Your vice-presidential nominee Sarah...
View ArticleMcCain's pal Liddy re ATF: "shoot for the head."
There's a story in the news today about a plot to kill Barack Obama and dozens of black citizens, including schoolchildren. It was diaried here yesterday, with updates and hundreds of comments....
View ArticleHow do we help President Obama?
I'm still overjoyed at Barack Obama's victory. And with many millions of people around the world, I'm basking in the promise of a new day for the U.S.A. But when President-elect Obama spoke last...
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